Syria Crisis: "The MSF hospital was my only hope"
I bled for one and a half hours on the way to the MSF hospital but I knew it was my only hope…
The trauma of fleeing conflict can have a disastrous effect on expectant mothers. The stress of caring for a family while seeking shelter has led many Syrian women to give birth prematurely.
The following is the story of Ahlam*, a 22-year-old mother from Dara’a, Syria. Both of her two children were born at the Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) mother and child hospital in Irbid, Jordan. Here, she tells her story about some of the many challenges she has faced since she crossed the border to Jordan in 2012.
Baby Abdullah in the neonatal unit of our mother and child hospital in Irbid, shortly after he was born.
